Fred <open...@crowsons.com> writes: > On 02/08/14 11:30, Timo Myyrä wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm dual-booting my desktop with BCD between Win7 and OpenBSD. >> My disk has two primary partitions, one for Windows and second one for >> OpenBSD. >> I just updated to latest snapshot via normal process but after rebooting >> I get stuck on ERR M. >> Same thing happened on last update as well. >> Last time I got things going by booting via CD and re-doing steps >> detailed in http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting >> >> The FAQ tells that the causes for ERR M might be incorrectly run >> installboot or alteration of /boot file. >> Is this common occurance? Does the boot file change on each upgrade or >> is there something more happening here? >> I'd hate to do the PBR update steps after each update. >> >> Timo >> > Hi Timo, > > I used to get this when I forgot to update the openbsd.pbr as part of > the upgrade process. I think you have to upgrade the pbr on windows as > part of the upgrade process - on WinXP overwriting the existing pbr > file with the new one was enough - not sure if this is the case with > Win7. > > hth > > Fred
Yeap, got OpenBSD to boot by overwriting the old openbsd.pbr on it with newer one. Didn't need to do the rest of steps. Seems that install ramdisk doesn't have any write support for NTFS partitions so I can't directly update it from ramdisk. Gotta check if ramdisk has FAT support so I wouldn't have to boot into Windows to update PBR. Timo
